Raw LLM Responses

Sort of. If I hire an artist to draw me a mickey mouse for my personal use, the artist and myself won't get sued for infringement. If I use that in an ad or sell shirts with mickey on it, that will get me sued since i'm using it for commercial gain. I looked and was unable to find any case in US history for an artist getting sued or threatened for commissions of IP. Character.ai in this case is creating private use commissions. So it would fall under the same category most likely. Fanfiction sites have existed for decades without threat (Interview With the Vampire fanfics were the only stories voluntarily removed w/o legal force). This is basically just a fanfiction site with private stories instead of public ones. The harm would be wayyyyy harder to prove. And this is WITH the assumption that the AI can be considered to be the artist. If AI is just a tool and the user is the artist... then it is a person making a work for themselves.... and then getting sued for copyright violation. Which is pretty close to a thought crime.